Feeling very behind and sleepy so just to get something new posted I’ll show you two colors from Orly’s In The Navy Collection, which came out in the summer.

This won’t be wordy at all since I can barely formulate a sentence at the moment. 🙂

Royal Navy

Royal Navy is a SUPER bright, vivid amazing medium blue with light blue glitter. Cameras cannot capture the true brilliance of this blue. It’s gorgeous and just two coats.

Star Spangled

Star Spangled is a bright red with red glitter. It definitely fits the theme of this collection, but it also seems to be a perfect Christmas holiday red as well. Great formula, smooth and buttery and opaque in two coats.

The only other color in this small set is a white one, which I didn’t bother buying since it’s just a basic white creme.

Recently some people had asked me if I had reviewed Sephora by OPI Midnight Mambo or Only Gold For Me. I hadn’t but when I was purchasing some fun goods from Sephora, I decided to pick ’em up and see if they were any good.

Midnight Mambo is from the limited edition Havana Nights collection (I reviewed most of it here) and Only Gold For Me is a top coat with pizazz.

Midnight Mambo

Midnight Mambo is a light, bright blue with silver and holographic chunky glitter. The silver glitter is small, round and very fine and the holographic glitter is hexagonal and larger. I dunno, I kinda like it. I wasn’t all that excited for it in the bottle, but when it’s on I think it’s pretty cool. It does dry a little gritty, but a top coat would help with that. It was pretty opaque, I only needed two coats and I had no formula or application issues.

Only Gold For Me

Only Gold For Me is a clear base with gold glitter. There is small round gold glitter, and then large chunky hexagonal glitter. On it’s own it’s cool, but not that great. It’s billed as a top coat though, so we all know where this is going…This was two coats. As with most chunky glitters you need a little patience here. You have to let the first coat dry a little bit otherwise you risk pushing the large chunks out of place.

Only Gold For Me over black

Ahhh yes this is how it’s meant to be. Over some dark color. Here I just used some random black, but I think it would look really cool over maybe an olive or army green creme also.

Um yeah, I am way late to the party on this collection, but am showing it anyway. 🙂

Essie’s new summer collection is made up of 6 new colors, and something you don’t really ever see from them…a GREEN polish! Now I know this is kind of mind blowing because we are so used to the fairly tame pinks, red and oranges with an occasional blue or dark vampy color tossed in. But I can’t remember a green from them ever, at least not in my nail polish collecting lifetime.

The formula on these was really quite good. Most were just two coats and I had no issues to speak of.

Miss Matched

Miss Matched is a very pale ballerina pink. This is on the sheer side, but did even out pretty decently after three coats. It’s super shiny! I went into applying this thinking “boring”, but I totally changed my mind after the three coats. I really like it on me! I mean I don’t know when I would ever wear it, but if ever I am in a very conservative mood or want something nude & shiny I would totally wear this.

Knockout Pout

Knockout Pout is a bright flamingo pink creme. It almost looks neon here, but it’s not. It does tend to dry kind of matte, like a neon would also, but just add a top coat for a regular shiny look. This is a pretty, vivid color for summer and would make a great pedicure color. It’s on the thicker side, but not hard to apply. This was two coats.

Demure Vixen

Demure Vixen is a pale pink/mauve with subtle pink, purple, blue & gold shimmer. This was very thin and almost watery, but built up nicely after three coats. It’s really pretty but I don’t love how the color almost blends in with my hands. I wish it was darker or something; but it would look amazing on darker skin tones.

Haute As Hello

Haute As Hello is a bright peach/coral creme. I love it! It’s so pretty and I don’t have a lot of colors like it. This was a little thick, but not unmanageable. This one also has that almost matte effect when you don’t have a top coat on it. This was two coats.

Vermillionaire

Vermillionaire is a very bright red/orange creme. It’s very shiny and cheery, but probably not something I would normally reach for. I feel I have this color already. This was two coats.

Pretty Edgy

Pretty Edgy is a vivid medium green creme. See, a green! From Essie! Ok yes that’s very unusual but moving on. I actually don’t love this green on me. I think it’s kind of boring and wish it was either darker or had more shimmer. It’s still pretty, but I have so many green polishes now, they need to be REALLY special to totally wow me. This was two coats, but could have been one more for better coverage.

I truly hope with the arrival of Pretty Edgy that this means Essie will come out with more “unusual” colors in the near future.

These should be available now wherever Essie products are sold in your area.

How are you feelin’ these? Are you excited about the green or think it’s not edgy enough for your blood?

Been awhile since I have been able to post any polish so today I’ve got some fun new colors from American Apparel for summer 2010.

The formula on these is really, really great. They have their stuff down! All of these were only two coats for full opacity and one could have been just one coat. The lighter colors look like they will be a hot streaky mess, but they are actually very even. I was super impressed!

Read on for swatches!

Summer Peach

Summer Peach is a light peachy/nude. This was the first of these collection that I swatched and I truly thought it was going to be horrible, but I was so wrong. Even with just one coat, it was very opaque and smooth. It’s not my favorite color on me personally, but could see the appeal on those with a different skin tone.

Butter

Butter is a light, cool lemon yellow. I love this kind of yellow, with not much gold in it, and amazingly, there was barely a streak at all! This is probably the least streakiest yellow I have ever used.

L’Esprit

L’Esprit is a light lavender pastel. This is a really pretty color and suits my skin nicely, though I do feel I have a lot of other colors like this.

Malibu Green

Malibu Green is a bright, teal green. This is a gorgeous color and the best of the bunch. This was so opaque I could have used just one coat, but I did two here.

Overall I think these colors are pretty great and the formula is outstanding. There are also a few other colors in this collection that I don’t have.

After today we are more than halfway through the week, yay! Actually I am off work the rest of this week because of A. Carpet installation Thursday (aka Hell Day) and B. My bday Friday (aka Fun Day). 🙂

Aaaaaannnnnyyywaaaayyyy, I have some colors I think 99.9% of earth has already seen at this point, but hey, I have ’em, why not show ’em?

These are some new (ish) Sally Hansen’s from the Salon Manicure line. I believe these are classified as a summer collection. Either way I’M classifying them that way because they came out in time for summer.

Without further adieu, here goes.

Silver Lining

Silver Lining is a light silver with multi-colored shimmer. I dunno, my socks weren’t knocked off here. It was a little too sheer and didn’t wow me as much on the nail as it did in the bottle. This was three coats.

Hidden Treasure

Hidden Treasure is a clear base with holographic flake glitter. You have seen this a zillion times on a zillion websites and here it is for the zillionth and one time. It’s obviously a color you have to layer otherwise it’s a wee bit boring. This was 3 coats for maximum flake-ocity. 🙂

Midnight in NY with Hidden Treasure

Here we have Midnight in NY with Hidden Treasure over it. And you’ve seen this a zillion times as well, I’m sure. It is pretty damn stunning though; I love it. This is two coats Midnight In NY and two coats Hidden Treasure.

Midnight In NY

Midnight In NY is a black with multi-colored micro-glitter. This is really nice, I like the jet black-ness of it and the colored glitter. I do kind of wish there was a little more of the glitter and it was better dispersed. It’s kind of sparse. This was only two coats though, so bonus!